My count there were 60 or 70 people out here tonight. The police are out here on the scene but so far everything has been peaceful. Now, the folks out here protesting accuse the city of wasting millions on a problem that they say keeps getting worse. Critical of the citys policy of tearing down encampments and throwing away personal property. The city of course says the encampments are a health and fire danger so they have to do that. Now, as we talked about earlier the protests began earlier today ask ktvu was out here talking to some of the people involved. Reporter a collection of encampments and individuals pitched tents outside of Oakland City Hall on sunday. It is a protest of oaklands handling of new housing and growing homelessness. They point to the millions in funding to support the home tphaols it homeless. That was to provide people with portapotties and water and solar powered hand washing stations. We believe the city wasted the money. The mayor has not followed the direc
The Livermore Valley area. We will get to that in a second. First lets start with the south bay to give you a check and things look good. A lot of gray on the map. No problems. Earlier problem on 101 has been cleared out of the way. Problems we are following for you in the pleasanton area Livermore Valley area southbound 680 north of sunol a crash involving a vehicle that hate couch. So good reminder for anyone hauling furniture or anything to tie up your items on the back of your truck so stuff doesnt fall off a crash on 5 0, 680 interchange. Bay bridge toll plaza is busy this morning. We are not sure if metering lights are on but looks like it. And this is because of a stalled vehicle earlier this morning. This was a garbage truck blocking one of the lanes. Thats been cleared out of the way. But you can see the backup continues because of it. 5 01 now back to the desk. New this morning, just after midnight, Oakland Police moved in, cleared out a protest by homeless activists outside
Higher elevations and very cold air will arrive wednesday into thursday and i think we will have good thunderstorm activity, maybe some hail and highs will be in the upper 30s to low 50s. We have lows in the 20s for many on friday morning. The sierra is dealing with a winter storm morning. It starts at Tuesday Morning at 10 am and go through 4 pm thursday. They could get one to three feet and snow around the 2000 foot level, including colfax and placerville. We have some snow and 40s, up to 45 degrees around here. This is the last day of 60s for about a week. The south bay has something else. We will go to the north bay. We are jumping around. Some problems popped up in one of them is on westbound 80. This is coming down from vacaville, westbound 80 east of monroe campus. You can see traffic is stacking up in vacaville from that stretch and then when you get down to alameda county, that stretch around University Avenue has a stalled vehicle around the senate divide and that has slowed
Our friends at csis for the outstanding job they did in preparing the home field. Our first panel was an excellent discussion of high policy, and we had two outstanding presenters and one outstanding moderator. We even got into some discussion due to bonnies insistence on domestic issues which was good. This session is not about policy. Policies are important, but theres more to elections than the respective views of the candidates, and so what we want to look at in this panel is in effect the horse race. Even though president ma whose name means horse is not running this time theres still a horse weighs, and theres a lot about elections that is very important to the outcome, and affects the way people vote, but dont have that much to do with policy positions. So for example, the quality and charisma of the candidates, the Party Identification of voters and how that shapes who they vote for. The larger balance of ideological sentiment that exists in society. Contextual factors like the
For cross relations. The big thing is this. Taiwan now with xi jinping has created so many enemies. He has to consolidate his power so next generation of leaders will be, of course his appointment. During this time i thing xi jinping will not make it easy on taiwan. What will china do . I dont think china will take drastic measures against taiwan. Instead china will tighten the screws with gradually. That will hurt taiwan people. Taiwan people are very sensitive to what china has to say or do. So even though the measure is not that drastic, relatively mild, in the former chinese perspective that will hurt china. What im concerned this will have a negative impact on taiwans domestic politics which will internally have a negative feedback loop on china. So thats the thing that we have to pay very close attention to. So of all the measure, the mild measures that china may undertake against taiwan, i think the harbinger of communication between the two are the most important one. Even more